For those experiencing difficulties during or after the installation process of the provided ISO, please ensure that you have enabled Compatibility Support Module (CSM) and disabled Secure Boot in your motherboard's BIOS settings. To access the BIOS settings, you can search for your specific motherboard model to obtain detailed instructions. Alternatively, you can try pressing ESC, Del, F8, F9, F10, or Ins keys multiple times on your keyboard while your computer is booting up.

If the aforementioned solution does not resolve the issue, it indicates that the ISO I provided does not support the AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) configuration of your current motherboard. Thanks in advance.

Edit: Attention, if you are stuck during the OOBE finalization stage you need to force restart your PC as it's unclear why it does that.

If your Windows defender or Anti-Malware software detects the ISO as a malware or trojan you're freely allowed to copy the same process I did with the drivers your system requires as I'm not gonna provide it.

I got this alert from windows defender when writing the usb image to a usb drive

Trojan:Win32/Hitbrovi.N

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It installed to the drive fine but the OOBE is stuck at "Windows is finalizing your settings" part.

my laptop hp pavilion g6 and they got a aero!

it seems like there might be an issue with the AHCI driver on your system. AHCI stands for Advanced Host Controller Interface, which is a technical standard defined by Intel that specifies the operation of Serial ATA (SATA) host controllers.

To troubleshoot this issue, you can try the following steps:

Restart your computer and enter the BIOS setup utility. Look for an option related to SATA mode or AHCI mode and try changing it to IDE mode or Compatibility mode. This may allow the system to boot successfully.

If changing the SATA mode doesn't work, you can try updating the AHCI driver to the latest version from the manufacturer's website or using Windows Update.

If you are still unable to boot successfully, you may need to reinstall Windows 7 with the AHCI driver included or try using a different SATA controller driver.

If none of these steps work, i dont know anything but. goodluck! trying these steps.

It installs fine, but when rebooting to the drive it gets stuck on AHCIDX64 or smth like that, how do I fix